Reese v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that trial counsel did not perform deficiently in failing to object when the trial court instructed the jury to “consider the felony murder first. If you don’t find that, then you would consider involuntary manslaughter.”
• reviewing for plain error the defendant’s claim that the trial court erred in failing to charge on justification and holding that the defendant’s “self-defense theory was not sufficiently strong that the omission of the instructions likely ‘affected the outcome’ of his trial”
• where evidence supporting self-defense theory was weak, failure to give justification instruction likely did not affect the outcome of the trial
• “Because the evidence supporting Reese’s self-defense theory was weak, we cannot say that the trial court omitting jury instructions on justification likely affected the trial’s outcome.”
• trial counsel not deficient for failing to object to jury instruction on lesser-included offense of murder where objection would have been meritless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Andre Pugh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-14· cited 16×
• Priester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 7×
• BAKER v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-22· cited 7×
• Gray v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 7×
• Chambliss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 6×
• Beard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 6×
• Rana v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 3×
• Desmond Legrant Staley, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-15
• Frison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-12-09
• Graham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-03
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

Cites

37 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Oliver v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-17· cited 1,923×
• Florida v. Jardines
  Supreme Court· 2013-03-26· cited 1,615×
• United States v. Dunn
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-20· cited 1,336×
• Hester v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1924-05-05· cited 1,214×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Wesley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 208×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 167×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 108×
• Tarvestad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 103×
• United States v. Aaron L. French
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-05-28· cited 69×
• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 66×
• Cantrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-06· cited 64×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 61×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 59×
• Camphor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-01· cited 56×
• Kunselman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-17· cited 32×
• United States v. Raymond Duenas, Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-08-16· cited 31×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 31×